Quaid's death anniversary to be observed today
 ISLAMABAD, Sept 10: The 56th death anniversary of Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah is being observed on Saturday throughout the country with reverence and solemnity....
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Talks under way on Balochistan issue: Musharraf - Demand for provincial autonomy backed
QUETTA, Sept 10: President General Pervez Musharraf said on Friday that negotiations with elders were in progress and promised more efforts to find a political solution of the Balochistan problem.....
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ARD asks MMA to renounce 17th Amendment
 ISLAMABAD, Sept 10: The Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy (ARD) has ruled out any possibility of cooperation with the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) on the uniform issue....
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Cell will be set up at PM's House
ISLAMABAD, Sept 10: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Friday said that a special cell was being set up in the Prime Minister's House to coordinate development schemes. Addressing the parliamentary group of the Pakistan Muslim League and allied parties at the Parliament House,....
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India urged to grasp opportunity for peace: Rashid believes Osama is dead
KARACHI, Sept 10: Pakistan will go extra mile for the success of composite dialogue with India, on all issues including Kashmir, and will do nothing to vitiate the environment for normalization of relations....
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Islamabad, Riyadh promise to jointly fight terror
ISLAMABAD, Sept 10: Saudi Ambassador Ali Awadh Asseri said here on Friday that the leadership of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan are absolutely determined to eliminate terrorism...
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Pakistan and China oppose resolution on Sudan
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 10: Pakistan and China on Thursday expressed strong opposition to a US-sponsored resolution on Sudan which demands sanctions and a UN inquiry whether a genocide was taking place in the country....
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Six militants, three armymen killed
WANA, Sept 10: Six militants and three army men, including a captain, were killed in a pre-dawn encounter on Friday in South Waziristan....
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Govt offers dialogue on Waziristan situation
ISLAMABAD, Sept 10: The government on Friday offered a renewed dialogue with opposition on ways to tackle violence in the tribal region bordering Afghanistan...
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Karachi faces major power breakdown
KARACHI, Sept 10: At least half the city was left in the dark for hours following a massive power breakdown on Friday evening caused by a breakdown in the main cable of the Karachi Electric Supply Corporation's Bin Qasim power station....
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SC to re-hear plea against meal serving at marriages
ISLAMABAD, Sept 10: The Supreme Court will re-hear on Monday a constitutional petition to revise its earlier judgment of lifting ban on wedding meals and wasteful expenses on matrimonial functions....
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Ex-varsity professor shot dead in Quetta
QUETTA, Sept 10: Armed men shot dead a retired professor of the Balochistan University here on Friday. Prof Atiqul Hasan Naqvi was on way home from his private school at Sariab and waiting for a bus at about 12:30pm when two men on a motorbike came and opened fire...
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New Delhi releases new Muslim census data
NEW DELHI, Sept 10: Indian census officials have issued adjusted figures for the growth rate of the country's Muslim population after data this week stirred hard line Hindu groups....
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Hindu militants vow to demolish tomb
BOMBAY, Sept 10: Hardline Hindus plan to tear down the controversial tomb of a 17th century Muslim general on Sunday, in a grim echo of the 1992 razing of a mosque that sparked some of India's worst religious riots....
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Quiet tribute to 9/11 victims
NEW YORK, Sept 10: Americans will pay quiet tribute on Saturday to victims of the Sept 11 terror strikes, amid a presidential election war of words over national security....
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Hamas leader killed in Gaza
GAZA CITY, Sept 10: A Hamas leader was killed on Friday as Israel pressed a major offensive in the northern Gaza Strip and imposed a watertight closure on the Palestinian territories before the Jewish New Year....
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WB head leaves BD after threat
DHAKA, Sept 10: The World Bank's country director in Bangladesh has left after receiving a death threat, a bank source said on Friday....
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S. Africa to brief UN on N-smuggling
PRETORIA, Sept 10: South Africa will next week brief the UN's nuclear watchdog agency about recent arrests in connection with an international nuclear smuggling ring with ties to Libya, a senior official said on Friday....
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